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Article: Changing Minds.(Book Review) (book review)
- Article from:
- Mental Health Practice
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2003 Royal College of Nursing Publishing Company. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Editors: Rosalind Ramsay, Anne Page, Tricia Goodman and Deborah Hart Publisher: Gaskell Price: 10 [pounds sterling] Pages: 140 ISBN: 1901242889
Over the last 20 years increasing attention has been given to the direct experience of people with a mental illness diagnosis--experience both of using mental health services and of living with mental distress. Personal testimony has been a central ingredient of service user/survivor action. After centuries of being silenced or discounted, the voice of those on the receiving end of the mental health system is now being heard in even the unlikely places.
Changing Minds is a good example of this trend. A joint ...